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Chip Ganassi Racing on Thursday afternoon locked up the front row for this weekend's Grand-Am season-opening Rolex 24 at Daytona International Speedway. Multi-time Grand-Am Rolex Series champion Scott Pruett claimed the overall pole position in the lead Ganassi Riley-BMW Daytona Prototype with a time of 1 minute, 40.553 seconds. That put him just over a tenth of a second ahead of teammate and full-time IndyCar driver Scott Dixon in the team's second Daytona Prototype.

Pruett, who is seeking a record-equaling fifth Rolex 24 win, said, “It's exciting for us to be one-two up front. It was right on the edge, but thankfully we managed to hang on.”

Third fastest was Dane Cameron in Team Sahlen's Riley-BMW with a lap of 1:41.213, ahead of Michael Valiante in the quickest of the two Ford-engined Rileys entered by the 2012 Daytona-winning Michael Shank Racing team.

The top Chevrolet-engined Corvette Daytona Prototype ended up in fifth position in the hands of Spirit of Daytona driver Richard Westbrook.

In the GT class, British driver Nick Tandy took qualifying honors in his first race as a Porsche factory driver. His time of 1:47.631 aboard the Konrad Motorsport Porsche 911 GT3 Cup car put him two tenths of a second clear of second-placed Andy Lally in the similar Magnus Racing car.